Dr. Michelle S. Hoo Fatt

Biography

Professor Michelle S. Hoo Fatt earned her B.S. degree (1987) in Mechanical Engineering and her M.S (1990) and Ph.D. (1992) degrees in Ocean Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. In 1995, she joined the Department of Mechanical Engineering at The University of Akron, where she teaches courses on Mechanics of Solids, Failure Analysis, Applied Stress and Wave Propagation. Her research areas are Elastomer Mechanics, Blast and Impact Mechanics and Composite Structures. She is an ASME Fellow, and serves on the Editorial Boards of the International Journal of Impact Engineering and Thin-Walled Structures.